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GENERAL PROGRAM
Grants Authorized 2005
MacArthur supports independent documentary film and video and public radio and television in the United States to help improve the diversity of viewpoints and high-quality content available. The primary focus of funding is independent documentary films—usually those that address subject matter close to MacArthur’s grantmaking strategies. Funding for public radio is intended to maintain and strengthen its program-production infrastructure.
Arts Engine, New York, New York
$180,000 in support of MediaRights, a project that connects social-issue filmmakers with nonprofit organizations (over three years).
California Newsreel, San Francisco, California
$300,000 in support of a documentary film series on the connection between socioeconomic status and health disparities, entitled Social Ills: How Society Makes Us Healthy — Or Sick.
Camino Bluff Productions, Amagansett, New York
$25,000 in support of activities to bring the documentary film, Farmingville, to Mexican audiences.
Center for Investigative Reporting, Berkeley, California
$75,000 to support preliminary research for a documentary film exploring the debate over protecting intellectual property.
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York, New York
$100,000 in support of the U.S. broadcast of the BBC World News (over six months).
$175,000 in support of the U.S. broadcast of the BBC World News (over 18 months).
Five Star Films, Cabin John, Maryland
$50,000 in support of a documentary film entitled, Breaking the Rules: White South Africans in the Struggle Against Apartheid.
Foundation for Independent Video and Film, New York, New York
$120,000 in support of general operations (over three years).
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$175,000 in support of the documentary film Secrecy, about balancing national security with government transparency.
Independent Feature Project, New York, New York
$180,000 in support of documentary programs (over three years).
Inner Asian Conservation, Hamden, Connecticut
$200,000 in support of a documentary film on the impact of the Burma Road on biodiversity in the Eastern Himalaya region.
Kartemquin Educational Films, Chicago, Illinois
$350,000 in support of a film about community-based conservation efforts in Africa.
Kikim Media, Menlo Park, California
$200,000 in support of a documentary film entitled, Ending AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine.
Lichtenstein Creative Media, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$300,000 in support of a documentary film examining the intersection of the mental health, juvenile justice, education, and foster care systems.
National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Santa Monica, California
$150,000 in support of general operations (over three years).
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
$225,000 in support of the Caravan Project, a multi-media book publishing demonstration project.
West Wind Productions, San Francisco, California
$300,000 in support of a film about the multinational efforts to bring former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his associates to trial.
WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts
$200,000 in support of The New Asylums, a FRONTLINE documentary film about the challenges faced by a prison system dealing with large numbers of mentally ill inmates.
WGBH Educational Foundation, Frontline, Boston, Massachusetts
$500,000 in support of FRONTLINE/World (over two years).
WNET Channel 13, New York, New York
$550,000 in support of Wide Angle, a television series featuring documentary films on international affairs (over two years).
$40,000 to support the planning stages of a series of public discussion and outreach activities to raise public interest in the Supreme Court and the upcoming film, The Supreme Court: One Nation, Under Law.
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Copyright 2006